MacHTTP Apple Guide provides online, context sensitive help for MacHTTP through Apple's Apple Guide technology. As you may or may not know, Apple Guide is like Balloon Help on steroids; Apple Guide provides the interface guidelines and resources for developers to create online help modules for applications. Bill Dyer has created such a module.
To install MacHTTP Apple Guide you must simply put it in the same folder as MacHTTP. After launching MacHTTP, you will be able to choose "MacHTTP Guide" from the Guide menu (formally the Balloon Help menu). In standard Apple Guide fashion, you now have the option of reading the help text through its classified or alphabetical index. You can also search the guide for specific topics. As expected, this guide briefly describes how to setup, configure, and interpret MacHTTP. If defines terms and leads you step-by-step through all the procedures to get MacHTTP up and running. For example, it more than adequately describes how to set up security realms by showing you how to all the necessary dialog boxes and fields you must complete. In some cases, the guide relies on documents on the Internet to explain details. It accomplishes this by launching Netscape and opening up a URL to specific pages.
MacHTTP Apple Guide is a professional, well-deserved addition to MacHTTP.
Eric last edited this page on September 26, 1995. Please feel free to send comments.